Denplan comes of age--a personal view.

Dental plans are a relatively recent addition to the profession and although there are now a number of options for practitioners to consider, Denplan was the pioneer in the 1980s. Celebrating its 21(st) birthday this year, Peter Swiss a former Dental Director of the company, reflects on its pioneering beginnings, its development and the place of capitation plans in dentistry.

NHS dentistry in the United Kingdom: past, present and future. A personal view.

The National Health Service (NHS) was created in 1948 to provide both medical and dental healthcare for the UK resident population based on need, not the ability to pay. Between 1948 and 2006 NHS dentistry improvement in oral health of the has made a huge contribution to the population of the UK.

Chief Dental Officers for England and the development of dental services in the United Kingdom.

The United Kingdom currently holds the Presidency of the European Union. The Department of Health for England has taken the opportunity to support a history of the development of dental services in the UK, focusing in particular on the role played by its chief dental officers. Emeritus professor Stanley Gelbier was asked to undertake the project. Until December 2002 he was professor of dental public health at the Guy's, King's and St Thomas' Dental Institute of King's College London. For many years Professor Gelbier has been interested in the history of dentistry. He has served as deputy and then curator of the Museum of the British Dental Association since 1983 and has researched and written widely on dental history especially in relation to the development of community and public health services.

The Founders' and Benefactors' Lecture. General dental practice--the evolution of a discipline.

My subject is the development of general dental practice from its roots in antiquity; through the Victorian concerns to protect the public by formalising registration and training; past the present day with our enthusiasms for postgraduate education and on into the future. In the course of this journey, I will seek to demonstrate that general practice is changing from the provider of basic solutions to basic problems and becoming a complex, multi-layered career. Indeed, that it is becoming a discipline in its own right.

The development and practice of social dentistry in Germany.

The traditions of social dentistry in Germany represent early forms of dental public health development. It was promoted in dental care facilities where salaried dentists delivered services to target groups, i.e., schoolchildren and sickness fund members. They enabled larger numbers of patients to receive dental care, especially those of lower class origin who otherwise would have remained untreated because of lack of financial resources or scarcity of manpower. School dental clinics not only delivered dental treatment, but also distributed oral hygiene and nutritional information to school-aged children. Social dentistry in the prefluoride era in Germany pursued an egalitarian and social-class oriented concept of dental care delivery, aiming at compensating the detrimental effects that the private practice-based, fee-for-service financed dental care system had produced in the lower classes of the population. The impact of the Nazi regime nearly abolished the institutions of social dentistry. They never were restored in West Germany after World War II. In East Germany dental care had been organized according to traditions of social dentistry, i.e., delivering services in dental treatment centers. Since the unification of the two German states, the institutions of dental care delivery in former East Germany have been restructured to fit the private practice-based model of former West Germany, eliminating most of the social dentistry institutions in the country.

[Some aspects of the history of dentistry in Cuba]. / Algunos aspectos de la historia de la estomatologia en Cuba.

Some aspects that are wanted to outline in relation to the history of stomatologic teaching and practice in Cuba, during its conquer and colonization, as well as during the mediated republic and revolutionary stage, are briefly reviewed.